Julia Gillard

Due donne dalla vita piena di impegni frenetici si ritrovano a chiacchierare a margine di incontri tenuti in giro per il mondo. Dal 2011 hanno occasione di partecipare agli stessi eventi globali in qualità di presidentesse dei principali fondi di sviluppo internazionale e da allora iniziano a scambiarsi opinioni sul difficile cammino che devono intraprendere le donne per diventare delle leader politiche. Le protagoniste di queste conversazioni sono Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala e Julia Gillard, nientemeno che, rispettivamente, la neoeletta direttrice dell’Organizzazione mondiale del commercio e l’ex primo ministro dell’Australia…

"I was prime minister for three years and three days. Three years and three days of resilience. Three years and three days of changing the nation. Three years and three days for you to judge". On Wednesday 23 June 2010, with the government in turmoil, Julia Gillard asked Prime Minister Kevin Rudd for a leadership ballot. The next day, Julia Gillard became Australia's 27th prime minister, and our first female leader.

Australians came to the ABC's The Killing Season in droves, their fascination with the Rudd-Gillard struggle as unfinished as the saga itself. Rudd and Gillard dominate the drama as they strain to claim the narrative of Labor's years in power. The journey to screen for each of their interviews is telling in itself. Kevin Rudd gives his painful account of the period and recalls in vivid detail the events of losing the prime ministership. Julia Gillard is frank and unsparing of her colleagues.